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Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight

Вс, Март 27, 2022 - 8:30

Why would the surface of Titan light up with a blinding flash? The reason: a sunglint from liquid seas. Saturn's moon Titan has numerous smooth lakes of methane that, when the angle is right, reflect sunlight as if they were mirrors.

Pluto at Night

Сб, Март 26, 2022 - 7:30

The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured...

Журнал “Небосвод” за май 2022 года

Пт, Март 25, 2022 - 13:03

Очередной выпуск журнала для любителей астрономии "Небосвод"

The Medusa Nebula

Пт, Март 25, 2022 - 6:30

Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Like its..

Астрономическая неделя с 28 марта по 3 апреля 2022 года

Пт, Март 25, 2022 - 6:13

На данной неделе 28 марта Луна (Ф= 0,17-) пройдет южнее Венеры, Марса, Сатурна и кометы P/Kopff (22P)

Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries

Чт, Март 24, 2022 - 7:30

Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries. Some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galaxy, the island universe is over 100,000 light-years across.

The Bubble Nebula from Hubble

Ср, Март 23, 2022 - 6:30

Massive stars can blow bubbles. The featured image shows perhaps the most famous of all star-bubbles, NGC 7635, also known simply as The Bubble Nebula. Although it looks delicate, the 7-light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of..

Календарь наблюдателя на апрель 2022 года

Вт, Март 22, 2022 - 16:10

Очередной выпуск ежемесячника, освещающего астрономические явления и небесные тела, доступные для наблюдений невооруженным глазом..

A Whale of an Aurora over Swedish Forest

Вт, Март 22, 2022 - 6:30

What's that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun earlier this month, throwing a cloud of fast-moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. Part...

The Sky in 2021

Пн, Март 21, 2022 - 7:30

What if you could see the entire sky -- all at once -- for an entire year? That, very nearly, is what is pictured here. Every 15 minutes during 2021, an all-sky camera took an image of the sky over the Netherlands.

A Picturesque Equinox Sunset

Вс, Март 20, 2022 - 6:30

What's that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east - west, and on two days each year, the Sun rises and sets right down the middle. Today is one of those days: an equinox.

2MASS J17554042 6551277

Сб, Март 19, 2022 - 7:30

2MASS J17554042+6551277 doesn't exactly roll off the tongue but that's the name, a coordinate-based catalog designation, of the star centered in this sharp field of view. Fans of the distant universe should get used to its spiky appearance